Word: cottbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officials were on hand to listen, and from East Germany came Deputy Premier Otto Nuschke and President Johannes Dieckmann of the East zone's rubber-stamp parliament. While Nuschke fidgeted and nervously massaged his nose, a crowd of 12,000 heard Evangelical Leader Günter Jacob of Cottbus, East Germany describe the sinister magnetism the totalitarian state exerts upon man. Applause had been discouraged by Kirchentag officials, but again and again the crowd broke in to cheer Jacob's words...
...question from the floor: "Have any avowed atheistic Communists been converted to Christianity? If so, have they suffered any social or political disability?" Bishop Peter replied: "The answer to the first question is yes, and the answer to the second question is no." But the Rev. Guenter Jacob of Cottbus in the Soviet Zone of Germany saw things differently. "It is impossible." he said in a later speech, "to believe in both our Christian dogma and in the Communist dogma . . . It is an either-or proposition for any single-minded person...
From the Soviet zone of Germany last week came stories of guerrilla bands attacking Vopos (People's Police) and even Red army units. East Berlin's Communist Neues Deutschland ran pictures of four Vopos recently killed near Cottbus. and rewards of 1,000 marks each were posted for three Czech refugees who. presumably, had done the killing. In special maneuvers, some 25,000 Vopos took to the field with full packs, sending scouting parties across the countryside, posting guards on the highways and digging foxholes. The East German Interior Ministry announced it had uncovered and smashed a number...
...Dresden last week a youthful hot combo was interrupted in mid-rehearsal and threatened with dire consequences if caught playing Western jazz a second time. In Cottbus, Communist police confiscated a stack of Western dance records and sent their owners to jail for two days. But the East German who was called upon to pay the piper most heavily for not calling the Communist tune was Egon Sander of Pirna. Last week Egon was dragged off the floor of a Pirna restaurant, sentenced to two years in prison for dancing the samba. The dance, said his Communist judges, was "endangering...
...active use, but many others are kept in first-rate condition the year round. Most of the fields are distributed in three thick clusters-one to the north, in Mecklenburg, one ringing Berlin, and the third in the south, in the triangle formed by Dessau, Altenburg and Cottbus. The major fields in Mecklenburg are at Peene-münde and Rechlin-Lärz. Some 200 fighters, a few reconnaissance planes and light bombers are based at Peenemünde, along with 3,000 service troops and 600 airmen, most of them officers...